Barbarian Help Needed [Archive] - Wizards Community

Barbarian Help Needed [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Kitsunefoxrunner
04-04-08, 11:43 PM Ive got a friend who is haveing a terible time finding decent feats for his Barbarian. He is using the Berzerkers strenght variant from PHBII, and does not know what to do for feats. Nor does he have any idea as to what to do for PrC's for his character. Any help would be apreciated by him (and me since he would stop complaining about it).
serow_#R
04-04-08, 11:55 PM I find the PHB2 Berserker variant discourages prestige classing, because the HP limit for activating Berserker is keyed to BARBARIAN levels only.
dman11235
04-05-08, 12:01 AM Yes, do not use it. It is broken in a very bad way. You need to be really hurt to use your main class feature. Robots have a saying: DOES NOT COMPUTE. A level 20 barbarian (no PrCs, as that makes it worse) needs to be at 100 hp or less. The average level 20 barbarian will get down to 300 hp by the time the fight is over. You didn't even get to use the class feature that holds no benefits over rage anyway. If you only have 5 levels of the class at level 20, you need to be at 25 hp or less. And 5 or 6 is where you usually PrC at.
runestar
04-05-08, 12:20 AM One way would be to go necropolitan, and try to get your max hp no more than 100 (lowering it via grafts, maybe?). This way, you can have berserker strength on 24/7.

But yeah, that variant seems fairly weak. At low lvs, a barb with extra rage is easily on par in terms of number of uses, and at higher lvs, you will likely have more uses of rage than encounters/day anyways, so at-will isn't as attractive as it looks.

Hope this thread (http://forums.gleemax.com/wotc_archive/index.php/t-644139) can be of some help.
Kitsunefoxrunner
04-05-08, 12:44 AM Thanks to all you. Hopefully he will belive you over me and i have even sent him the link to the tread you showed me runestar. Thanks!

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Kitsunefoxrunner 04-04-08, 11:43 PM	Ive got a friend who is haveing a terible time finding decent feats for his Barbarian. He is using the Berzerkers strenght variant from PHBII, and does not know what to do for feats. Nor does he have any idea as to what to do for PrC's for his character. Any help would be apreciated by him (and me since he would stop complaining about it).
serow_#R 04-04-08, 11:55 PM	I find the PHB2 Berserker variant discourages prestige classing, because the HP limit for activating Berserker is keyed to BARBARIAN levels only.
dman11235 04-05-08, 12:01 AM	Yes, do not use it. It is broken in a very bad way. You need to be really hurt to use your main class feature. Robots have a saying: DOES NOT COMPUTE. A level 20 barbarian (no PrCs, as that makes it worse) needs to be at 100 hp or less. The average level 20 barbarian will get down to 300 hp by the time the fight is over. You didn't even get to use the class feature that holds no benefits over rage anyway. If you only have 5 levels of the class at level 20, you need to be at 25 hp or less. And 5 or 6 is where you usually PrC at.
runestar 04-05-08, 12:20 AM	One way would be to go necropolitan, and try to get your max hp no more than 100 (lowering it via grafts, maybe?). This way, you can have berserker strength on 24/7. But yeah, that variant seems fairly weak. At low lvs, a barb with extra rage is easily on par in terms of number of uses, and at higher lvs, you will likely have more uses of rage than encounters/day anyways, so at-will isn't as attractive as it looks. Hope this thread (http://forums.gleemax.com/wotc_archive/index.php/t-644139) can be of some help.
Kitsunefoxrunner 04-05-08, 12:44 AM	Thanks to all you. Hopefully he will belive you over me and i have even sent him the link to the tread you showed me runestar. Thanks!